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Alois Brunner was born on 8 April 1912 in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen and the Sturmabteilung (SA) a year later. In 1933, Brunner moved to Germany where he joined the Nazi paramilitary group Austrian Legion. [4]
Alois Brunner, the commandant of the Drancy camp, pressed by the advance of the allied troops after the Normandy landing on June 6, 1944 and helped by the confusion set off by the failed assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, seized the opportunity to pursue his murderous folly.
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Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by the SS, which placed officer Alois Brunner in charge of the camp. In 2001, Brunner's case was brought before a French court by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld , which sentenced Brunner in absentia to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Sonderaktion 1005 (German pronunciation: [zɔndɐakt͡sjoːn aɪ̯ntaʊ̯zəntfʏnf], 'Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion (German pronunciation: [ɛntɐdʊŋsakt͡sjoːn], 'Exhumation Action'), was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944.
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Alois Brunner: Wolfgang Gerhard [23] Josef Mengele: Michael Gollwitzer: Heinrich Seetzen: Helmut Gregor [24] Josef Mengele: Heinrich Hitzinger [25] Heinrich Himmler: Ricardo Klement [26] Adolf Eichmann: Günther Mendel [27] Gustav Wagner: José Mengele [28] Josef Mengele: Pedro Ricardo Olmo: Walter Kutschmann: Fausto Rindón [20] Josef Mengele ...